Get wiser and find new stories in our network series on investigating food and water issues in Europe! Free participation.
In the Arena Food & Water Network we come together to discuss how to investigate issues around food and water in Europe. Together with experts from journalism, academia, civil society and economy we look at data sources, reasearch and journalistic projects that can inspire further investigations and cross-border collaborations.
For everyone interested in the latest data and investigating issues around food and water across Europe, join us for our upcoming meetings.
Online meetings of the Arena Food & Water Network
January 2023
The 50 billion agricultural subsidies: Get fresh data and ideas for reporting
Learning Lunch on January 26th 2023 from 12:00 to 13:30 CET (online).
Join a learning lunch with the Arena Food & Water Network, Farmsubsidy.org, and journalists from Süddeutsche/NDR/WDR in Germany and Gazeta Wyborcza in Poland to for a deep dive into the EU farm subsidy database. Get inspired, and leave the lunch with new story ideas and fresh data. Read more about the publication, dataset and speakers.
December 2022
Spotlight on the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
Wednesday, 7th of December from 18:00 – 19:30 CET with Kimberly Nicholas from Lund University and tba.
Food & Water Network Meeting Room
Contact
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November 2022
“Hunger Profiteers”: Investigating food commodities, speculation and trading
Thursday, 17th of November from 10:00 – 11:30 CET with Margot Gibbs and Thin Lei Win from Lighthouse Reports. Presenting their cross-border investigation “Hunger Profiteers”, Margot Gibbs and Thin Lei Win from Lighthouse Reports speak with us about the food speculation and how to investigate the data.
Food & Water Network Meeting Room
Databuffet: The latest data on food, water and industrial emissions
Tuesday, 22nd of November from 10:00 – 11:30 CET with Caroline Whalley and Juan Calero from the European Environmental Agency (EEA).
Food & Water Network Meeting Room
October 2022
During the last week of October 2022, the Arena Food & Water Network came together for the first time to talk about the importance of food systems reporting in Europe. With Thin Lei Win from Lighthouse Reports and David Laborde from the IFPRI in Washington D.C., two experts in the field spoke about the systemic issues of our food systems, political choices and the data and details journalists need to look out for when reporting on food systems.